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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.1.8.pr-19.1.8.1

Remedies for Discrepancies in Servitudes of Land

Passage 2771 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the remedies, namely the seller's condictio incerti and the buyer's actio ex empto, when land is delivered with or without servitudes contrary to the contract.

[PAULUS libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §19.1.8.prSi tibi liberum praedium tradidero, cum seruiens tradere deberem, etiam condictio incerti competit mihi, ut patiaris eam seruitutem, quam debuit, imponi.
[PAULUS, on Sabinus, Book 5] If I deliver to you a free property when I ought to have delivered it as subject to a servitude, even a condictio incerti is available to me, so that you may allow that servitude to be imposed which ought to have been.
§19.1.8.1Quod si seruum praedium in traditione fecero, quod liberum tibi tradere debui, tu ex empto habebis actionem remittendae eius seruitutis gratia, quam pati non debeas.
But if, in the delivery, I make a property subject to a servitude which I ought to have delivered to you as free, you will have an action on purchase for the purpose of releasing that servitude which you ought not to endure.

Notes

  1. §19.1.8.prcum seruiens tradere deberem — The conjunction cum with the subjunctive (deberem) functions here as concessive ('although I ought to'). The participle seruiens modifies the implied noun praedium, functioning adjectivally to mean 'subject to a servitude'.
  2. §19.1.8.prcondictio incerti — A civil law personal action (condictio) for an uncertain object or performance (here, the tolerance of the imposition of a servitude). It is utilized to retroactively rectify the performance of the sales contract.
  3. §19.1.8.1remittendae eius seruitutis gratia — A gerundive construction where the gerundive remittendae agrees in gender, number, and case with the genitive eius seruitutis, which, combined with gratia, expresses purpose ('for the purpose of releasing that servitude').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.1.8.pr-19.1.8.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.1.8.pr-19.1.8.1

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